Vocab #4

1.) accolade- an award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit

2.) acerbity- sharp and forthright

3.) attrition- the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure

4.) bromide- a trite and unorigional idea or remark typically intended to soothe or placate 

5.) chauvinist- a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism 

6.) chronic- persisting for a long time or constantly recurring

7.)expound- present and explain ( a theory or idea) systematically and in detail

8.) factionalism- the splitting of a group into factions; conflict between factors

9.)immaculate- of a person or their clothes perfectly clean, neat, or tidy

10.)imprecation- a spoken curse

11.)ineluctable- unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

12.) mercurial- subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

13.) palliate- make less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause

14.) protocol- the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions 

15.) resplendent- attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous 

16.) stigmatize- describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval 

17.) sub rosa- happening or done in secret

18.) vainglory- inordinate pride in oneself or ones achievements; excessive vanity

19.) vestige- a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists

20.) volition- the faculty or power of using one's will

Hafta/Wanna

Well all in all, from my point of view I do see a big difference and eye opening experiencing coming my way very soon. Right now, I am seventeen years old and living the amazing senior life. I have everything I really need and I am so happy with the work I have been putting forward. I have really noticed my parents starting to put much more on my shoulders though. I love my parents and I know they are only trying to prepare me for what is to come in the near future and to be honest, I love it. I can't wait to have my own place, graduated and with a major in Agriculture Business. I have been realizing now that my eighteenth birthday is coming around things are becoming much different. I have much more freedom although I am still very under my parents wings which I will always be. My future I see so far is doing my two years of general education at Hancock and then moving onto go to take my last two years of college at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where I then plan on majoring in AG. Business and furthering my career through Agriculture. I have been raising around Agriculture my whole life and am following the footsteps of many of my family members which I love. I expect to put all of my dreams and wishes to work and make the best of my life. I have such big dreams and one is to make my family and parents mostly very happy. I know throughout my life there have been struggles but my parents have always been by mysids and never left once and that is the reason I am who I am today. I cannot wait to see what me along with my fellow classmates do with our lives in our near future. Everyone has something different planned and maybe even nothing planned. At sometime in our lives we will all figure out what we want to do and whatever that certain thing is we are going to put our minds to work and do what we do best.

NOTES ON "THE CHOICE"

• Drawing attention in the first sentence using the certain words he did including poison 
• Hero or Execution? 
• How certain parents put this vs. how this guy was really writing this story
• Parents= not sure what the feelings are
• Patience or love?
• Authors attitude is more loving now and a sight of kindness is showing
• Conversational tone and emotion play a huge roll in both telling and reading this
• Truth- when we write in nonfiction it is so much needed
• Fiction- meant to draw in
• Nonfiction- designed as a story

VOCABULARY SPRING 1

Adumbrate- report or to represent in outline

Apotheosis- the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax


Ascetic- characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self- discipline and abstention from all forms of 

Indulgence- typically for religious reasons


Bauble- a small, showy trinket or decoration


Beguile- charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way


Burgeon- begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish


Complement- a thing that completes or brings to perfection


Contumacious- stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority 


Curmudgeon- a bad tempered or surly person 


Didactic- intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Hacking My Education

Hacking:

• redefining for ourselves 
• taking the reins and making this something more personal and something that we want to do rather than something that someone else wants us to do

This semester we really want to focus on turning this whole course into something that we want to do, throwing out our own ideas that we have and actually putting to work what we know. 

3 of the MUST-HAVES : 

• Dr. Preston
• Public
• Expert 

There is always help everywhere we look even though sometimes you might not think so, if there is ever any question; Dr. Preston is always one to help. Whenever I have a question I may not be understanding something he always helps me and wants to make sure I know exactly what I am doing. 

The Choice

1.)  It is referred to the girl either wanting to take the poison herself or her parents having to force it down her throat.

2.) Yes it is a real choice because either she takes the poison or she dies.

3.) It is literally poison to keep her living and by putting it the way she did she really drew attention to the into of the article.

4.) She feels that she will never live to be the age of 8 so she needs to play with it now and I do agree with her because if I was in that situation I would want to be allowed to play with a toy that I may not ever see.

5.) I would want to travel and do all sorts of things that I would not be able to do past the age of 30.

6.) I do not understand what is being asked in this question.

7.) It is because some things you may have to fight for. Not everyone is given everything. Some have to work for it and some still may never get it for as long as they work. There are always wants in life but the needs need to be taken care of first.

8.) Just the certain way it is said and the way he puts his thoughts and the real story into words.